Chamber of commerce salutes top '13 members

6:23 AM,
Feb. 28, 2014

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Heroes came large and small - and even smaller than that - at the Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce's 93rd annual awards luncheon Thursday at Sherwood Hall.

Mann Packing, celebrating its 75 years of operation, was honored as Large Business of the Year and Alvarez Technology was similarly cited as Small Business of the Year.

Even smaller, though, was little Tatum Bakker, who accompanied parents Shawn and Amanda when they received the chamber's Spirit of the Community Award for their work inspiring and organizing construction of Tatum's Garden, the ...